Hussmann Corp., a St. Louis-based manufacturer of refrigerated and frozen food merchandising equipment, added its new Q3 meat and bakery cases to its Q line of flexible, upscale specialty display cases for supermarkets.
Stop & Shop/Giant Food (Landover, Md.) named artisan bread company Chabaso Bakery with its "Best Service to the Stores/Perishables, 2009" award at its recent annual vendor meeting in Boston, Mass.
Kansas City supermarket industry veteran Jon McCormick has been named president of the Retail Grocers Association of Greater Kansas City (RGA), Kansas’ largest retail trade association. A non-profit organization, RGA is operated by and for retail food store operators and their suppliers.
Safeway Inc. this week kicked off its 5th Annual 10 percent Back to Schools program, a special in-store initiative that unites 100 food manufacturers in support of education and students throughout the U.S.
The more than 350 attendees at the Hispanic Retail 360 Summit gathered for the second day in Las Vegas to examine what effects the recession has had on Hispanic consumers and their shopping habits.
Two major studios inked distribution deals with automated DVD kiosk suppliers that will enable retailers to sell new releases from the studios at the same time they hit video stores.
The Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) is deferring the final implementation step of the GS1 DataBar on coupons for one year because the industry isn’t ready yet to meet the original deadline.
In the latest example of the food industry’s close attention to health-and-wellness issues affecting consumers, the “Smart Choices Program” made its official debut last week, its green check mark symbol now appearing on of hundreds of products in supermarkets and other retailers across the United States.